Color of rays, pale purple or blue. Leaves, long, narrow, entire, acute, with rough margins; the upper, small, crowded, sessile, often turned back. Heads, small, panicled, often a single one at the end of the branch. August to October.

Bushy Aster (Aster dumosus)

Common in sandy soil, along paths and roadsides, in fields, varying in color to a very pale violet or white. From Maine to Michigan and southward. A pretty, cheerful little aster, often covered with dust along the highways, but bravely putting out its blue flowers. (See illustration, p. 361.)

A. lateriflbrus-----Color, white or light purple. (See White

Flowers, p. 136.)

A. paniculatus-----Color, white or pale violet. (See White

Flowers, p. 136.)